Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
by Ann Taves
In Religious Experience Reconsidered, Ann Taves introduces a building-block approach to studying religion and other special phenomena. This framework dissects experiences into modular elements, promoting unbiased analysis of how humans construct meaning from ordinary and extraordinary perceptions. It bridges disciplines to explore cultural and psychological dimensions of significance.
About This Book
Ann Taves presents a novel building-block approach to the study of religion and other special things. This method breaks down complex experiences into fundamental components, allowing for a more systematic analysis.
By reconsidering religious experience, the book challenges traditional assumptions and provides tools to examine how ordinary and extraordinary perceptions form. It extends this framework to other domains of human significance.
The approach encourages interdisciplinary insights, drawing from psychology, anthropology, and philosophy to understand the construction of meaning in various cultural contexts.
Through this lens, Taves aims to foster a neutral, empirical study of what makes certain experiences 'special' across societies and individuals.
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